One important topic in medical image analysis is segmenting wall structures from different cardiac medical imaging modalities such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This task is typically done by radiologists either manually or semi-automatically, which is a very time-consuming process. To reduce the laborious human efforts, automatic methods have become popular in this research. In this thesis, features insensitive to data variations are explored to segment the ventricles from CT images and extract the left atrium from MR images. As applications, the segmentation results are used to facilitate cardiac disease analysis. Specifically, 1. An automatic method is proposed to extract the ventricles from CT images by integrating surface decomposition with contour evolution techniques. In particular, the ventricles are first identified on a surface extracted from patient-specific image data. Then, the contour evolution is employed to refine the identified ventricles. The proposed method is robust to variations of ventricle shapes, volume coverages, and image quality. 2. A variational region-growing method is proposed to segment the left atrium from MR images. Because of the localized property of this formulation, the proposed method is insensitive to data variabilities that are hard to handle by globalized methods. 3. In applications, a geometrical computational framework is proposed to estimate the myocardial mass at risk caused by stenoses. In addition, the segmentation of the left atrium is used to identify scars for MR images of post-ablation.

La thèse porte sur la segmentation spatio-temporelle et interactive d'images cardiaquesdynamiques. Elle s'inscrit dans le projet ANR 3DSTRAIN du programme"Technologies pour la Santé et l'Autonomie" qui a pour objectif d'estimer de façoncomplète, dense et sur plusieurs modalités d'imagerie 3D+t (telles que l'imageriepar résonance magnétique (IRM), la tomographie par émission monophotonique(TEMP) et l'échocardiographie) l'indice de déformation du muscle cardiaque : lestrain. L'estimation du strain nécessite une étape de segmentation qui doit être laplus précise possible pour fournir une bonne évaluation de cet indice. Nos travauxse sont orientés sur deux axes principaux : (1) le développement d'un modèle desegmentation conforme à la morphologie du muscle cardiaque et (2) la possibilitéde corriger interactivement et intuitivement le résultat de la segmentation obtenuegrâce à ce modèle. / This thesis focuses on the spatio-temporal and interactive segmentation of dynamiccardiac images. It is a part of the ANR 3DSTRAIN project of program "Technologiesfor Health and Autonomy" which aims to estimate full, dense and on several3D+t imaging modalities (such as Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Single PhotonEmission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and echocardiography) the indexof deformation of the heart muscle : the strain. The strain estimation requires asegmentation step which must be as precise as possible to provide a good estimationof this index. Our work was focused on two main areas : (1) the development of asegmentation model conforms to the shape of the heart muscle and (2) the abilityto interactively and intuitively correct the segmentation's result obtained with thismodel.